Tedious Quotations

It's so tedious that everyone must be defined.

When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film.

Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people.

Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.

Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.

I find aspects of the industry tedious and hard to manage.

With a computer, you make your changes on the screen and then you print out a clean copy. With a typewriter, you can't get a clean manuscript unless you start again from scratch. It's an incredibly tedious process.

Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.

I'm paranoid about shopping. I get irritable. I find it tedious and taxing. People say shopping is retail therapy, but I need therapy after shopping.

While the male eye zooms in on a particular element to the exclusion of all else, a woman's gaze flickers from one tedious task to the next, to the point where we can't distinguish between the importance of mopping the kitchen floor and achieving world peace.

Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

It got very tedious saying the same jokes in the same way with the same attitude.

Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or won't. In general, however, the more you let go of the tedious delusion of your own unattractiveness, the easier it will be for others to connect with you, and the more accepted you'll feel.

I find getting my nails done the most tedious thing. I'm such a fidgety person; it's like torture. Everybody loves massages; I don't know what my problem is. I feel like I have to talk to the masseuses.

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place.

Our sense of what is valuable will hence be radically distorted if we must perpetually condemn as tedious everything we lack, simply because we lack it.

Given that the movie had to condense four days into two hours, and given that the communications were sometimes rather tedious and technical, it was pretty accurate, ... Apollo 13.

From ball one, they played out for a draw and it was absolutely tedious and very disappointing.

For there is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather, to cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

Humans can actually read a landscape, go through a lot of rocks - crack them open, throw them, pick up the next one. Rovers are great - they do amazing science - but it is a lot more tedious process; they go much less far than a human can cover in a day.

Some of the questions to determine you are who you say you are make it tedious to complete. The program also has crashed on some consumers before they could complete it.

. . . it a great error to waste young gentlemen's years so long in learning Latin by so tedious a grammar.

It is getting free from tedious affairs in order to serve more as a body that conducts guidance and supervision.

Rock stars generally don't last in the Senate, starting with John Kennedy. Too much work, too slow, too little juice. Getting something accomplished takes a remarkable amount of tedious work. Rock stars who become senators either run for something else or retire on the job. They certainly don't make a mark.

It is a long and somewhat tedious process, but it is of utmost importance... to the criminal justice system,

I think it's going to be a rough start, getting the routine. It's still going to be very tedious going through everything.

We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

We were very pleased at how easy it was to migrate to AdManager, ... To manually transition all of our campaigns to the new system would have been a tedious and time-consuming task. Using Accipiter's XMLServer Module, it took us less than one week to successfully migrate our campaigns, saving us time, operational costs, and reducing the potential for human error.

What is special about Fisher is not the tedious stuff about six teaspoons of dry mustard, but the literary dressing around the sides of the recipes.

Besides, many parents are unconfident in domestic films and think they are merely tedious preaching.

I spent so many years in terror of 'making it legal' because the expression rang all too true - the wedding ritual struck me as nothing but a flowery front for the fulfilment of countless, tedious contracts and obligations.

The suggestion came from the farmers themselves as they felt vaccination would lead to a tedious process of waiting to see if it was effective. We will now be culling another 100,000 chickens.

The Summer hath his joys, / And Winter his delights. / Though Love and all his pleasures are but toys, / They shorten tedious nights.

It would seem to make a lot of sense if the other banks agreed to make the refund and save themselves and their customers the long and tedious hassle of a defended case.

It would be altogether too tedious to insert here all the annual petitions for powder which were sometimes repeated two or three times a year.

It was a long, tedious process for him, and it was probably as challenging a recruiting process for me. As a Division I-AA program, they're allowed to carry a similar number of players as a Division I-A program, but they don't award scholarships. The getting in part is very selective.

Stop the I. When that's all you have to say, it is very tedious and self-promoting.

They started this in the late 1950s, and it has been a long, tedious process. They really want to check everything she did and said, and people testify about her holiness.

The weekly updates were a little tedious and not terribly relevant. They generally don't measure trends very well.

In real life, nothing would be more tedious than trailing around after two strangers as they went house-hunting in Hertfordshire. But for some reason, television is more compelling than real life.

I'm not one of those spoiled rock stars who complains about how tedious it is to perform my old hits.

Doing all those tedious things in rehab made me more disciplined and focused on the things I have to do for my tennis.

It's got to be tedious for the president. He stands there with Laura, we're each introduced, he knows some, he doesn't know others, some people bend his ear. It's not an in-depth anything.

Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.

It was a fairly long and tedious process.

Film can be exciting, but more often, it's tedious.

It's something different that I've never done before. Spending this much time on a project is tedious at some points, but it's also really exciting to me. And then there's the charity work we'll be doing. All of that drew me to it and made me want to be part of it.

It's a good Cape Coral-centered event. Education doesn't always have to be tedious and painful.

There's also all the tedious academic books that come out. There's something like a book or an article on Beowulf being produced every week at the moment.

I began developing the plug-in collection because of several severe shortcomings in Finale that were causing me many hours of tedious manual work.

Admiration bestowed upon any one but ourselves is always tedious.

If I didn't draw comics I was a worthless human being. It was tedious labor, so I worked fast to get it over with.

It is tedious to tell again tales already plainly told.

What so tedious as a twice-told tale?

Most screen violence is tedious.

That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious.

How tedious is a guilty conscience!

I don't like programming. It's tedious.

My backstory is so tedious.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man

Continuous eloquence is tedious.

I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die

Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

You are a tedious fool.

They are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

People are either charming or tedious.

All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious

Each man reserves to himself alone the right of being tedious.

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious.

Everything is tedious when one does not read with the feeling of the Author.